Saturday, October 4, 2008

Wormy Baked Apples

6 lg Golden Delicious apples
1/2 c *each* raisins and chopped walnuts
1/2 c Firmly packed brown sugar
1/4 c Water
1/4 c (1/2 stick) butter/margarine
1/2 t *each* Watkins ground cinnamon and Watkins ground nutmeg
6 Wiggly candy worms ("Gummy Worms")
1 c Whipping cream -- optional

Core apples from blossom ends, leaving stem ends intact. Mix raisins and walnuts and stuff into cavities of cored apples. Set apples, stems up in a 7x12-inch pan.

In a 1 to 2 quart pan, mix brown sugar, water, butter,cinnamon, and nutmeg; stir over high heat until mixture boils. Pour hot syrup around apples. Bake, uncovered, in 350~ oven, basting occasionally with syrup, until apples are tender when pierced and skin begins to crack, 30 to 35 minutes.

Remove apples from oven; cool in pan at least 10 minutes or let cool to room temperature. Set each apple in a small bowl and spoon syrup around fruit. In the top of each apple, cut a hole large enough for one of the candy worms and tuck one end into each apple, leaving most of the worm dangling. Offer cream to pour over apples. Makes 6 ghastly servings.


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